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The Meddling of Mrs Harris

Tuesday 10th July

Doors 7.00pm / Start 7.30pm

What connects a missionary’s wife, a famous American author, and a European King responsible for atrocities in the Belgian Congo? The answer is the Kodak camera of the meddlesome woman who photographed human rights abuses, alerting the world to the appalling reign of terror in Africa under King Leopold II. That woman was Alice Seeley Harris from Frome. Local writer Peter Clark presents a performance version of Mark Twain’s satirical “King Leopold’s Soliloquy”, first delivered in 1905″.